Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volumen2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 |
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... seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home , in the spacious circuits of her musing , hath , liberty to propose to herself , though , of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form , whereof ...
... seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home , in the spacious circuits of her musing , hath , liberty to propose to herself , though , of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form , whereof ...
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... seems , like Montagne , to have poured his whole heart into his writings , and both his sentiments and diction possess a pe- culiar and indescribable charm . To the compo- sition of no English author can the French term naïveté be more ...
... seems , like Montagne , to have poured his whole heart into his writings , and both his sentiments and diction possess a pe- culiar and indescribable charm . To the compo- sition of no English author can the French term naïveté be more ...
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... seems equal , and , indeed , is in both admirable . Homer had more fire and rapture , Virgil more light and swiftness ; or , at least , the poetical fire was more raging in one , but clearer in the other , which makes the first more ...
... seems equal , and , indeed , is in both admirable . Homer had more fire and rapture , Virgil more light and swiftness ; or , at least , the poetical fire was more raging in one , but clearer in the other , which makes the first more ...
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... seems to have studied the genius of our language with happier success . If in elegance and grammatical precision he has since been exceeded , to none need he give way , in point of vigour , variety , richness , and spirit . There is a ...
... seems to have studied the genius of our language with happier success . If in elegance and grammatical precision he has since been exceeded , to none need he give way , in point of vigour , variety , richness , and spirit . There is a ...
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... seem not as soft and flow- ing as some would have them , it was his choice , not his fault . He knew that in diverting men's minds , there should be the same variety observed as in the prospects of their eyes ; where a rock , a ...
... seem not as soft and flow- ing as some would have them , it was his choice , not his fault . He knew that in diverting men's minds , there should be the same variety observed as in the prospects of their eyes ; where a rock , a ...
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